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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. 15
otlier in regular dialogue ; which recalled to my mind the
classic pastoral still copied in Sicily and Calabria in the rude
language of the peasantry. Coffee was introduced in the
interim, and I was favoured by having the pipe of each of the
party presented to me in succession; a compliment I could
willingly have dispensed with, as I was obliged to apply my
lips to the mouth-piece of the pipe, hot from the gums of the
person who offered it me. Other games of gross mirth, bor-
dering on indecency, followed : I thought it time to retire to
a ruined apartment which was given up to me, having de-
clined the offer to sleep in the guard-room. I made ample
return for the civility shown me, by presenting the party with
a bottle of brand}', which was eagerly drunk by all except
one, whose countenance, very handsome, bespoke much more
mildness than the others, and who had previously surprised
me by getting up in the midst of all the mirth and noise that
occurred, to perform his devotions in presence of the party ;
a circumstance which did not occasion any remark. The
word " bataal" (blockhead) was applied to him lay one of the
most dissolute, when he refused to partake of the brandy.
On the 16th I embarked early in the morning for Etko, a
village at the eastern extremity of the lake of that name,
remarkable at a distance for an apparent neatness: I even
thought it had a resemblance to an English village situated
on a gentle ascent; but, on a nearer approach, its minarets
otlier in regular dialogue ; which recalled to my mind the
classic pastoral still copied in Sicily and Calabria in the rude
language of the peasantry. Coffee was introduced in the
interim, and I was favoured by having the pipe of each of the
party presented to me in succession; a compliment I could
willingly have dispensed with, as I was obliged to apply my
lips to the mouth-piece of the pipe, hot from the gums of the
person who offered it me. Other games of gross mirth, bor-
dering on indecency, followed : I thought it time to retire to
a ruined apartment which was given up to me, having de-
clined the offer to sleep in the guard-room. I made ample
return for the civility shown me, by presenting the party with
a bottle of brand}', which was eagerly drunk by all except
one, whose countenance, very handsome, bespoke much more
mildness than the others, and who had previously surprised
me by getting up in the midst of all the mirth and noise that
occurred, to perform his devotions in presence of the party ;
a circumstance which did not occasion any remark. The
word " bataal" (blockhead) was applied to him lay one of the
most dissolute, when he refused to partake of the brandy.
On the 16th I embarked early in the morning for Etko, a
village at the eastern extremity of the lake of that name,
remarkable at a distance for an apparent neatness: I even
thought it had a resemblance to an English village situated
on a gentle ascent; but, on a nearer approach, its minarets